rclone/Forum/24/09/Add the new Google Photos Picker API

• Add the new Google Photos Picker API to rclone - Feature - rclone forum

  • My Notes
    • announces a change to the google photos API that would probably make rclone/gphotosdl stop working if it is not modified by 2025/03.
    • Links to Google Photos API changes from March 2025 · Issue #511 · gilesknap/gphotos-sync which ended up closing that project
  • Quotes

    • The current Photo Library API would change so it only have access to photos and albums that are created by rclone
      

    • This is pretty disheartening as I want to be able to download all my albums and shared albums through rclone as well.
      

    • Person/Nick Craig-Wood says

      • I read this email and ignored it because rclone doesn't use the library API, but apparently they have renamed it and that is what we use.
        Library API: Affected scopes and methods
        As part of our changes to the Google Photos APIs, we have made the following updates.
        As shown on the updated Authorization page, the following scopes will be removed from the Library API after March 31, 2025:
        

        • photoslibrary.readonly
        • photoslibrary.sharing
        • photoslibrary

      • Rclone uses the first or last scope.
        

      • We can probably make uploading work ok, but I think the photo picker API is probably a non starter for rclone.
        

    • would mean I cannot use rclone (or anything else except google takeout...) to backup my Google Photos, which I do automatically